Congratulations to the New Georgia Students of the Month for November! These students show great citizenship and kindness to others in their classroom, school, and community. They are great representatives of the school!
December 3rd several students from the NPHS Fly Fishing & Cold Water Conservation Club fished the trophy trout waters of Unicoi Outfitters, Nacoochee Bend, in Helen Ga. During Thanksgiving break, students of the Club assisted the Georgia Department of Natural Resources with stocking trout into the Chattahoochee River.
Hiram High school hosted the first annual Paulding / Douglas county rifle team shoot off. Every High school from each county that has a rifle team, came together this past Saturday (December 2nd) and faced off against each other.
Chattahoochee Technical College has named educator Christine Hord as its new director of Adult Education. Hord has a strong background in adult education with 20 years of working in the Cobb/Paulding Adult Education program.
This week Georgia Highlands College will hold a First-Generation Student Celebration for all students, faculty, and staff who are or were first-generation college students in their family.
Lex Vick currently attends Georgia Highlands College. He takes classes on the Floyd Campus. He lives in Armuchee. There are currently around only 5,000 falconers in the U.S. Lex will graduate to master falconer in 2018. Lex is currently working on his associate in biology at Georgia Highlands College. He wants to continue on to Berry College to get a bachelor’s in animal science before attending veterinarian school at the University of Georgia.
Roberts Elementary recently showed our support and gratitude to the members of the Armed Forces by hosting a Veterans Day parade and breakfast. Veterans and current service members were honored with a parade through the hallways and patriotic songs.
The Chattahoochee Tech Foundation received Role Model Foundation Board Certification from the Technical College Foundation Association (TCFA) during the Technical College System of Georgia’s annual Fall Leadership Conference held recently in Savannah.
Paulding County High School's 30th Annual Miss Patriot Pageant was held on November 16, 2017. Fifteen young ladies competed in the fun-filled event. MacKenzie Dryden was crowned Miss Patriot 2017.
HES Hornet family invited and welcomed veterans to come to our school to be honored for all they’ve done for this country of ours. We thanked them by making displays, giving thank you’ s, and many other tokens of thanks.
Morgan Hunton, a senior at East Paulding High School, was recently selected as one of the nations top 125 high school marching band seniors from thousands of applicants to participate in the 2018 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. She will receive an all-expense paid trip to San Antonio to march in the Alamodome during halftime of the All-American Bowl.
The Medal of Heroism is the highest ROTC award a cadet can receive. An act of Heroism must be performed to earn this award and also it must set the cadet apart from the others and involve acceptance of danger.
In an effort to help Chattahoochee Technical College students reach their academic and professional goals, Open Roads Complete RV Owner Drew Hutton has provided a $2,500 donation to the college’s 2018 Student Leadership Academy.
The Veterans Day celebration at WC Abney Elementary is always a special day! I am a second-grade teacher there, and this year was even more special for me as my son, Airman First Class, Mason Goodroe.